The Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized the adoption of anti-communist laws by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. According to this authoritative organization that studies the crimes of the Hitler regime, the Ukrainian parliament is trying to divert attention from the crimes of individual representatives of Ukraine during the Holocaust by “falsely equating Nazism with communism.”
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This was stated by the head of the Jerusalem branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Ephraim Zuroff. in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa.
“Equating communism with Nazism is an attempt to equate criminals with victims. This decision is outrageous. This is a big lie that turns executioners into victims.” – he noted.
Zuroff emphasized that the trend towards “equalizing Nazism and communism” was born “among the Baltic nationalists and was continued by the Ukrainians,” while he notes that in no case should we forget that the USSR made a great contribution to the defeat of Nazism.